Technology

A team of scientists has found the first proof that weakening and strengthening Asian monsoon rains played a key role in the evolution of mammals.

Researchers from the University of Manchester, the University of Bristol, the Chinese Academy of Science and Harvard University looked at the pattern of variation of the South Asian monsoon over time and compared it with the evolution of African mole rats and bamboo rats as revealed by a full analysis of their relationships coupled with studies of their distribution in space and through time and of their evolutionary rates.

A new study has provided a deeper insight into the origin of life phenomenon mystery.

University of Akron polymer scientist found that certain amino acids and sugars were simply meant to be in life.

Professor of Polymer Science Tianbo Liu has discovered that Mother Nature’s clear bias toward certain amino acids and sugars and against others isn’t accidental.

A new study has revealed that Krapina Neandertals may have made world’s first jewelry prepared by modifying eagle claws 130,000 years ago.

Researchers described eight mostly complete white-tailed eagle talons from the Krapina Neandertal site in present-day Croatia, dating to approximately 130,000 years ago.

A team of scientists has developed revolutionary bionic heart that doesn’t beat.

Chief medical officer William Cohn of BiVACOR, the company working on the new bionic heart, said that the average human heart has to beat 42 million times a year, which means that if it were replaced with a machine with a lot of moving parts, it would quickly wear out, the ABC News reported.

With an unusual drop in atmospheric carbon dioxide and the irreversible exchange of species between the New and Old Worlds, the human-dominated geological epoch known as the Anthropocene probably began around in 1610, a research shows.

“The Anthropocene probably began when species jumped continents, starting when the Old World met the New. We humans are now a geological power in our own right – as Earth -changing as a meteorite strike,” explained lead author Simon Lewis from the University College London (UCL).

A new study has indicated that the human-dominated geological epoch known as the Anthropocene probably began around the year 1610.

The study conducted by University College London (UCL) showed that previous epochs began and ended due to factors including meteorite strikes, sustained volcanic eruptions and the shifting of the continents.

Two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut today boarded a Soyuz space capsule in preparation for their return to Earth after spending six months at the International Space Station.

Yelena Serova, Alexander Samokutyaev and Barry Wilmore said farewell to their three crewmates who are staying at the orbiting lab, and floated into the Soyuz, closing the hatch behind them at 0030 IST.

The Soyuz will undock from the space station at 0344 IST, then perform an engine burn a couple of hours later to help the spacecraft drop out of orbit.

Grains of rock spewed into deep space suggest a small moon of Saturn has hydrothermal vents, boosting theories it may harbour microbial life, scientists said today.

Reporting in the journal Nature, astrophysicists in the United States offered a solution to a decade-old mystery over dust observed streaming from Saturn’s rings.

The grains are disgorged from a mineral-rich, balmy sea beneath the planet’s ice-crusted moon Enceladus, they suggested.

Fossils of a wacky-looking, 7-foot -long sea creature are providing new clues about how limbs developed in the family of animals that includes lobsters, crabs, scorpions and insects.

The fossils of the ancient sea creature were found in Morocco. Their discovery is reported by researchers at Yale and Oxford universities in a paper released Wednesday by the journal Nature.

Astronomers from the University of Cambridge have discovered nine dwarf satellites orbiting the Milky Way, the largest number ever discovered at once.

The findings may help unravel the mysteries behind dark matter, the invisible substance holding galaxies together.

The results also mark the first discovery of dwarf galaxies – small celestial objects that orbit larger galaxies – in a decade.

The objects are a billion times dimmer than the Milky Way, and a million times less massive.

Moon Express’s Indian origin billionaire and NASA have teamed up to build robotic spacecraft to mine the moon, it has been reported.

Moon Express, a Mountain View, California-based company that’s aiming to send the first commercial robotic spacecraft to the moon in 2016, just took another step closer toward that lofty goal, CNBC reported.

Earlier in 2015, it became the first company to successfully test a prototype of a lunar lander at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

A new study has revealed found geological evidence that some of the same forces as today caused the climate 1.4 billion years ago.

Fluctuating climate is a hallmark of Earth, and the present greenhouse effect is by far the only force affecting today’s climate. On a larger scale the Earth’s climate is also strongly affected by how the Earth orbits around the sun; this is called orbital forcing of climate change. These changes happen over thousands of years and they bring ice ages and warming periods.

Astronomers have learned that a compact star dubbed US 708 is moving faster than any other star ever observed in the Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomers at Queen’s University Belfast stated that the record-setting hypervelocity star has been clocked at 1,200 kms per second. That’s so fast that astronomers say it will escape the gravity of Earth’s galaxy (in 25 million years).